2015年1月19日 星期一

2015-01-20 U.K. Science


Malay Mail Online
   
Asteroid 2004 BL86 to fly pass Earth on January 26 (VIDEO)   
Malay Mail Online
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 20 ― A half-kilometre-long asteroid will fly past earth on Monday (January 26), approaching as close as 1.2 million km from the planet, about three times the distance from earth to the moon. The asteroid, designated 2004 BL86, was ...

NEOWISE: A yearlong look at the sky   Astronomy Magazine
Asteroid 2004 BL86 set for close encounter with Earth in January   The Guardian
Huge asteroid to 'narrowly' miss Earth   Telegraph.co.uk
The Independent   
The Register   
Full-Time Whistle   
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Telegraph.co.uk
   
Beagle 2: probe find rewrites history and vindicates Colin Pillinger   
Telegraph.co.uk
The history books must be re-written to show that the Beagle 2 mission was a success, scientists said on Friday, after the first pictures of the probe proved that it did land safely on Mars, vindicating lead scientist Colin Pillinger. A grainy image, just a few pixels ...

The Beagle 2 space probe HAS landed - it just hasn't been able to talk to us   South West Business
Beagle 2 space probe found on Mars 12 years after it landed   Tiverton Mid Devon Gazette
Beagle 2 found after a decade; image shows lander in partially deployed state   Techie News
Haaretz   
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TIME
   
Soprano Sarah Brightman Starts Training for Space Song   
NBCNews.com
After a delay due to family illness, British singer Sarah Brightman began months of preparation on Monday at Russia's Star City cosmonaut training center for a 10-day, $52 million trip to the International Space Station. The 54-year-old soprano, best known for ...

Sarah Brightman Arrives in Russia, Preparing for Space Journey   Latin American Herald Tribune
Sarah Brightman: Space dream begins   Music News
Sarah Brightman prepares for ISS visit   9news.com.au

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Daily Mail
   
Dawn probe snaps incredible images of the Ceres asteroid   
Daily Mail
As the Dawn spacecraft closes in on Ceres, new images have emerged showing the solar system's largest asteroid at 27 pixels across - three times better than the images taken in early December. Over the next weeks, Dawn will provide increasingly sharper ...

NASA's Dawn gets its best glimpse yet of dwarf planet Ceres   CNET
NASA Spacecraft Get a Closer Look at Dwarf Planets Pluto and Ceres   New York Times
Most Detailed and Closest image of Dwarf Planet Ceres Delivered by Nasa's ...   Full-Time Whistle
ABC News   
Astronomy Now Online   
Los Angeles Times   
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Daily Mail
   
The sea snail that uses 'weaponised' INSULIN to leave prey sluggish   
Daily Mail
The geographic cone snail (conus geographus) uses the chemical to cause a plunge in blood sugar, leaving the fish sluggish and unable to swim to safety. In this way the snail is able to entrap whole schools of small fish. C. geographus is one of the most ...

Predatory sea snails produce weaponized insulin   (e) Science News
Predatory snail uses weaponized insulin to trap its prey   National Monitor
Snail Uses Unique Form Of Insulin To Stun Unsuspecting Prey   Headlines & Global News
The Hoops News   
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Tech Times
   
Erupting Since August, Lava Field of Bardarbunga Volcano in Iceland Now ...   
Tech Times
The Bardarbunga volcano has been erupting for five months now. While the lava flow has slowed down, it is not showing signs of stopping anytime soon. (Photo : NASA Earth Observatory). Since August 2014, lava has been gushing from fissures north of ...

Volcano Spectacularly Erupting Five Months On   KL.FM 96.7
Aerial footage shows huge lava flow in Iceland   Telegraph.co.uk
Aerial footage shows huge volcanic eruption in Iceland   Irish Independent
IcelandReview   
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The Inquisitr
   
Astro-boffins tune in to weird real-time cosmic radio burst   
The Register
The Parkes radio telescope – under a cloud due to budget cuts in Australia – has delivered its first science headline for 2015, giving astronomers their only real-time view so far of the unexplained phenomenon known as the Fast Radio Burst (FRB). FRBs were ...

The discovery of this strange cosmic phenomenon has scientists baffled. Source ...   NEWS.com.au
Australian scientists detect radio waves from mystery source 5 bln light years away   Xinhua
Cosmic Radio Burst Caught from Outside Our Galaxy   Science Times
The Inquisitr   
UPI.com   
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Full-Time Whistle
   
Melting glaciers have big carbon impact, study shows   
Full-Time Whistle
As the world warms, glaciers around the world are rapidly hemorrhaging ice and threatening catastrophic sea level rise. But melting glaciers also pose another kind of menace: the release of vast amounts of stored organic carbon into waterways. Editor : David ...

​Melting glaciers dump carbon into the sea   CBS News
Not Just Sea Level Rise: Melting Glaciers Release Vast Amounts of Carbon ...   Newsweek
Melting glaciers have big carbon impact   Science Codex
Carbon Brief (blog)   
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Full-Time Whistle
   
McCain hopes to define legacy with national security post / (FTW)   
Full-Time Whistle
It's quite some introduction to a two-week holiday but I know our tour leader, Paul Goldstein, is right. Svalbard, a mountainous archipelago in the High Arctic, has that effect on people. I've been fortunate enough to visit on several occasions, and the beauty of ...

Polar Bears Shifting to Areas with More Sea Ice   BioScholar News
Polar bears migrate north as rising temperatures hasten Arctic ice melt   The Guardian
Travel: Exploring the plight of the polar bear in beautiful Svalbard   Western Daily Press
West Texas News   
PBS NewsHour   
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Full-Time Whistle
   
Climate change denial   
Deseret News
The Pentagon declares climate change as one of the greatest security threats to our country's future. Shell Oil Co. admits that climate change is in fact happening and is due to human activities. The majority of scientific institutions across the globe call for ...

Living in denial: big oil and the religious right unite against our environment   Open Democracy
Eugene Robinson: Republicans are stubbornly blocking the road on climate   Washington Post

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